prolepsis

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A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.

A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.

An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.

The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb.

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Heinrich Ritter, Alexander James William Morrison, (1846), The History of Ancient Philosophy, Volume 4, page 207 Epictetus teaches that the preconceptions ( prolepsis ) of good and evil are common to all. Source: Internet

Epistemology Epicurean epistemology has three criteria of truth : sensations (aisthêsis), preconceptions (prolepsis), and feelings (pathê). Source: Internet

An example of prolepsis is the word "man" because every person has a preconceived notion of what a man is. Source: Internet

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